Senior Product Designer, Vice President

State Street Corporation; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work programs

Educational and development support

Competitive medical and retirement方案

Job summary

State Street Corporation is seeking a Senior Product Designer, Vice President, to shape product strategy and UX for complex financial platforms. You will lead end-to-end design, partner across product, engineering and business, and translate research into concrete interfaces.

The role supports a hybrid work model with exposure to regulatory environments and opportunities to apply GenAI insights to design practices within a global financial services leader.

Qualifications

• 8+ years as experience designer with SME in UX/UI skills.
• Degree in Design, HCI or related field is a plus.
• Experience in large regulated enterprise environments.
• Front-end development experience a plus.
• Experience designing complex financial or data applications is a big plus.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end design for State Street's financial products, ensuring cohesive UX.
• Conduct user/product research and translate insights into user-centric solutions.
• Deliver high-fidelity designs, prototypes and wireframes for complex interfaces.
• Partner with product managers and engineers to define requirements.
• Analyze data and iterate designs with focus on accuracy and security.
• Research trends and AI implications to enhance design practice.
• Present design concepts to stakeholders and advocate for user solutions.
• Manage design projects within regulatory requirements.

Skills

UX research

Storytelling

Presentation

User empathy

Education

Design degree

HCI background

Regulated enterprise experience

Tools

Figma

Principle

Axure

Adobe Creative Suite

HTML/CSS

Job description

Who we are looking for

State Street is looking for a highly-motivated, visually biased, versatile Senior Product Designer, Vice President to join our user experience design team. State Street Product Designers have a tremendous responsibility in defining the product and experience strategy, understanding and communicating user needs, and working with teams across multiple areas to prototype and build new digital experiences. We are looking for an experienced designer who can transform large-scale, complex problems into intuitive, simple, and impactful products. We know that the success of our business depends on our ability to deliver exceptional customer experiences, and collaborate with engineers, product owners, and others across the company to bring them to life. This role can be performed in a hybrid model, where there is a balance of working from home and office.

What you will be responsible for

• Drive end-to-end design for State Street's financial products, ensuring cohesive UX
• Conduct user/product research, translate insights, and create user-centric solutions tailored to financial professionals
• Deliver high-fidelity designs, prototypes, and wireframes for complex financial interfaces
• Partner with product managers, engineers, and financial experts at State Street, defining requirements
• Analyze data and iterate on designs for improvement, with a focus on accuracy and security
• Foster design excellence within the context of financial design
• Research technology and industry trends that can enhance State Street's product offerings, including exploring how the benefits of AI can be integrated into design practice and product solutions
• Present design concepts to stakeholders that advocate for effective user solutions
• Manage design projects to successful completion within State Street's regulatory environment
• Perform user research: interviews, surveys, usability testing, and data analysis, with experience in financial user research preferred
• Run design thinking or ideation sessions with business teams to gather meaningful data
• Develop interactive prototypes with Figma, Principle, Axure, or similar
• Structure and organize content, especially for complex financial data
• Apply typography, color theory, layout, and visual hierarchy, with an understanding of data visualization
• Help design and maintain component libraries with the State Streets Design System team

What we value

• Utilize Figma, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects)
• Design by default for ADA/WCAG compliance following guidelines and best practices
• Familiar working in Agile/Scrum project framework
• Demonstrate strong presentation and articulation of design decisions
• Solve problems through critical thinking and creative solutions
• Incorporate analytics and user feedback into design decisions
• Possess basic HTML/CSS knowledge
• Grasp Agentic/GenAI fundamentals and their impact on UX/UI and the financial industry
• Exhibit basic understanding of financial products and services

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years as experience designer, with demonstratable SME in UX/UI related skills
• Degree in Design (Interaction, Graphic, Product), HCI, or related field a plus
• Experience working within a large, regulated enterprise
• Front-end development experience a plusExperience designing complex financial or data applications a big plus

Additional optional requirements

• Solid understanding of emerging LLM and GenAI prompting best practices and how they can accelerate and elevate design practices
• Motion design experience a plus

Why this role is essential to us

Our technology function, Global Technology Services (GTS), is vital to State Street and the key enabler of our business's delivery of data and insights to our clients. We're driving the company's digital transformation and expanding business capabilities using industry best practices and advanced technologies such as cloud, artificial intelligence, and robotic process automation. We offer a collaborative environment where technology skills and innovation are valued in a global organization. We're looking for top technical talent to join our team and deliver creative technology solutions to help us become a next-generation, end-to-end financial services company. Join us if you want to grow your technical skills, solve real problems, and make your mark on our industry.

About State Street

What we do. State Street is one of the world's largest custodian banks, asset managers, and asset intelligence companies. From technology to product innovation, we're making our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we've been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading, and investment management to institutional clients.

Work, Live and Grow.

We make every effort to create a great work environment.

• generous medical care, insurance, and savings plans, among other perks.
• You'll have access to flexible Work Programs to help you match your needs.
• Our wealth of development programs and educational support will help you reach your full potential.

Inclusion, Diversity and Social Responsibility.

Our employees' diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives create an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive and reach their maximum potential while adding value to our organization and clients. We welcome candidates of diverse origin, background, ability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and personality. Another fundamental value at State Street is active engagement with our communities worldwide as partners and leaders. You will have tools to help balance your professional and personal life, paid volunteer days, matching gift programs, and access to employee networks that help you stay connected to what matters to you.

We welcome candidates of diverse origin, background, ability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and personality.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.

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